Chris Christie: It’s “probably against the law” to get opposition research from Russians

New Jersey governor, and former GOP presidential candidate, Chris Christie said today that “it’s probably against the law” for a political campaign to receive opposition research from a foreign country.

Christie did caveat his comments, first reported by the Associated Press, by saying that there’s no evidence as of yet that the Trump campaign received such research. Ryan Hutchins at Politico has more of Christie’s comments. They’re all over the place. It’s almost as if Christie was trying to say the truth, that this is really bad, but also trying to cover himself with Trump.

Which takes us to our second point, this could be Christie’s revenge best served cold. Christie may be making a dig at Kushner, by raising the possible illegality of Kushner’s actions in attending this meeting.

Of course, Trump’s own son attended the meeting as well, and responded “I love it” when told that the Russian government wanted to help Trump win the election and had information to share.

But that takes us back to point 1: Christie may no longer have much love for Trump, who dumped Christie after the New Jersey governor had risked his reputation by supporting Trump during the campaign. Who can forget Chris Christie’s hostage video from March of 2016:

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